In the Facebook pools I swim in there was a collective sadness over the death of author Brandon Barr. You can check out his books here if you are interested. I also recently put together an anthology dedicated to my father who has cancer. One of the things that I worried about was people saying that I was just using my father's cancer to get sales. Ironically, I worried more about it than actually giving any thought of using it to hook in readers. I haven't put it in the blur